There are 11 article(s) tagged Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change:

• February 2025

  • Hooks Institute to honor award-winning author Feb. 5

    The awards ceremony will begin with reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Michael D. Rose Theatre on the University of Memphis campus.

    By Jane Roberts February 04, 2025

• July 2024

  • Hooks Institute invites art entries for exhibit on beauty of change

    The contest is open to Memphis-area artists 18 and older. 

    By Jane Roberts July 25, 2024

• May 2024

  • Hooks Institute takes long view of city in new U of M home

    Daphene McFerren grew up among people who knew how to make a difference. Her parents, John and Viola McFerren, are folk heroes in Fayette County for helping organize Tent City in the 1960s.

    By Jane Roberts May 07, 2024

• April 2024

  • After 70 years, schools remain widely segregated, experts say

    The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change hosted the Brown v. Board of Education Conference, which included four members of the Memphis 13, the group of first-graders who integrated the city schools in 1961.

    By Jane Roberts April 16, 2024

• March 2024

  • Hooks Institute event to look at impact of Brown v. Topeka Board

    Seventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, the Brown v. Board of Education decision remains one of the most important in U.S. history.

    By Jane Roberts March 28, 2024

• February 2024

  • Hooks National Book Award winner ties Black theater to activism

    In particular, the assistant professor honed in on theater as a way to resist calls for what Fleming describes as “Black patience” or for Black people to suffer and wait patiently to receive equal rights.

    By Kambui Bomani February 28, 2024

• July 2022

  • Film aims to show how Memphis helped shape Ida B. Wells

    “I want people to see (Ida B. Wells) as a real person. I also want to see Memphis as a character in the development of Ida B. Wells because she’s not coming from thin air.”

    By Mikayla Higgins July 23, 2022

• May 2021

  • Opinion: New Wells documentary speaks to today’s reckoning with race

    Ida B. Wells’ words and actions put to shame efforts by state legislatures today – including ours in Tennessee – to ban the teaching of systemic racism and its detrimental impact on people of color.

    By Otis Sanford May 20, 2021

• June 2020

  • Hooks Institute offers forum for public change

    Speakers will share insight for reform here and across nation from #BlackLivesMatter activism.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff June 18, 2020

• February 2020

  • Hooks Institute names 5 finalists for book award

    Winner will be announced this summer.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff February 27, 2020

  • National civil rights leader will speak at U of M Hooks Institute luncheon April 23

    Kristen Clarke is president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

    By Jane Roberts February 25, 2020